
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The founding moment of Fuchsia was a crisis within the Chrome team as we realised the web was being locked out of mobile, even as Chrome was being made Android's default browser. One train of thought was that the web simply wasn't fast enough; this begat "Razor", a project to cut down Blink to a fast subset of HTML. The initial gains were pretty killer. HTML's cadillac error correction does, indeed, slow down HTML parsing by a lot. And you can clobber a LOT of code.